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Berlinger: In the small town of Chillicothe, Ohio,

six women have gone missing,

young mothers caught in a vicious cycle of addiction

and prostitution.

Four of them have turned up dead.

Woman: I found a woman's body in the creek.

Berlinger: I'm Joe Berlinger.

I'm a documentary filmmaker and an activist.

I'm working with forensic analyst Angela Clemente

and retired FBI agent Steve Bongardt...

I'd really like to talk to you.

...to find out what happened to these women.

We got to get justice.

All of us in here have to get justice.

Berlinger: At first, our investigation

focused on the six women from Chillicothe.

All the girls that have been found missing,

Dollar Bill knew every one of them.

This thing is getting beyond Chillicothe.

**

Now, we're investigating two more missing women's cases

with eerily similar circumstances

in yet another Ohio city.

In Columbus, victims of human trafficking

reveal a brutal reality...

Woman: He thought he was losing his grip on me,

so he tattooed "Property of" his name above my vagina.

What that meant is, "If you go anywhere else,

we'll put you in a Dumpster."

Berlinger: ...and share firsthand accounts

of sexual exploitation

by those sworn to protect.

All of my clients were police officers,

firefighters, pastors, lawyers.

Beyond closed doors, I was being trafficked to all of these men

who were the very ones who were supposed to protect me.

Berlinger: Could some in law enforcement

have an ulterior motive for letting these cases go cold?

Ruth: There's somebody out there that knows what went on,

but they just won't tell because they're scared.

Magill: So we pray, "Our Father..."

Heather: He put the gun to my chest, and he said, "Live or die."

Landrum: Everybody who knows information that tries to come out

and talk about it, they end up dead.

Coleman: He gave her a hot shot of heroin.

Kellough: And I said, "I know who your son is

and I know what he did, too."

Sam: If she's out there, please just let her go

[Echoing] and let her come home.

**

Berlinger: To move this investigation forward,

we have to get past people's fear of talking.

At a successful rehab program in southern Ohio, Freedom Hall,

recovering addicts and former prostitutes

share struggles similar to those of the victims

we are investigating.

-Hi. -Hi, there.

-Hey. -How are you?

Good. How are you?

-Wonderful. -Hey. I'm Joe.

Nice to meet you, sir. Angie Pelphrey.

So nice to meet you.

We're a long-term in-patient facility

for men and women with drug and alcohol dependency.

Over the past few years, we've been able to take in

a lot of females of human trafficking.

A lot of the missing and dead women around here,

do you think this addiction problem

is connected to it?

I do personally, yes.

Everyone around here is saying,

"Everything is due to the power and the drugs and money."

We're trying to shine a light on this.

Yes, absolutely.

**

I'm investigating the women

that have been missing and turning up dead.

What does everybody think is going on here?

I completely understand why people would not want

to talk about it because you're vulnerable.

But I commend all of you because you've all come a long way

of getting out of addiction,

getting out of prostitution.

You know, my story was similar in the sense.

I did not get involved in any drugs,

but I grew up in a really terrible childhood.

I was physically abused and sexually abused at age 11.

My mother worked in a bar,

so people that she would bring home would end up,

you know, using me.

I had consistently been

just passed around to whomever.

Some of them were law enforcement,

and I, you know, as a child,

you don't think a police officer

is gonna do something so bad to you,

but in my case, that did happen,

but I was too afraid to speak out.

**

And then I said, "This is enough.

You know, what is wrong with people?

I'm not gonna have this."

And I fought back,

and I decided to start helping other victims.

I've worked as far as up with the White House, with Congress.

I just wouldn't shut up, and all of you can do the same thing,

every one of you.

With regard to some of the johns that you would be in touch with,

did you guys ever encounter anyone in law enforcement?

-Greatly, yeah. -Yeah.

It goes on a lot in Portsmouth.

-In Portsmouth? -Yeah.

Livingston: You may not have seen it, you know, firsthand,

face-to-face, but it's known,

public officials that are into drug use

or that are into the prostitution.

Portsmouth is a small town,

and you can't walk into the courthouse

and not run into somebody you used with,

bought from, or sold to.

**

Girls go missing.

Nobody bats an eyelash about it.

Why is there no investigation?

Why didn't anybody get arrested?

Megan Lancaster out of Portsmouth,

she was one of the first that we had heard about.

Berlinger: On April 3rd, 2013,

25-year-old Megan Lancaster

goes missing from Portsmouth, Ohio.

Megan's family had said they're not sure

why the law enforcement won't do more,

you know, kind of like she was swept under the rug.

Megan Lancaster, a young mother suffering from addiction,

seems to fit the same profile

as the eight other missing women from Columbus and Chillicothe.

We wonder, is there any connection

between Megan's disappearance

and the other missing women?

Portsmouth lies just one hour south of Chillicothe.

We decided to drive down Route 23,

the so-called Heroin Highway,

to find out more.

**

Portsmouth is considered to be the center

of America's opiate epidemic.

Once home to the nation's largest

concentration of pill mills,

dubious clinics that hand out prescriptions for a profit,

some doctors and pharmaceutical companies

helped hook a generation on pain medication.

Ohio back a few years ago shut down the pill mills.

What happened is heroin took off.

You see heroin coming in.

23 is still one of the main routes through this area.

What they call the 23 pipeline,

at one time, that meant crack cocaine

from Columbus to southern Ohio.

Now it means heroin.

It's everywhere.

Berlinger: To find out more about Megan Lancaster,

we spend time with Zanobi,

a transgender heroin addict

who prostitutes to support her habit.

Zanobi: Just feel bad, feeling terrible.

I'm hot and cold, sweats.

My stomach hurts, feel like I'm gonna throw up.

Berlinger: So is that what's called dope sick?

Dope sick -- skin crawling, shaking.

**

Did you know Megan Lancaster, the woman who went missing?

Yes.

You know, from one trick to another trick,

we all hang in the same circle.

We all talk to each other. You know what I'm saying?

**

Just don't follow too close to me.

Don't make it look obvious that you're following me either

'cause then I'm not gonna be able to, you know, work.

**

What did he say to you when you got in the car?

I'm walking around, and he pulls up

and asks if I needed a ride.

I said, "Yeah," so I got in the car.

He asked if we could have sex for $50.

I told him, no, that was too cheap.

I said if he can get a blow job

for $50, a quick blow job for $50,

and that's what he got.

So you're gonna go look for some heroin now?

Yes. Yes. I'm gonna go try to get my fix, find it.

I'm nervous though just in case if my dope dealer rides by,

I don't want him to see the cameras and stuff.

**

So I went and got my heroin.

I have a gram, which is $100.

That gonna last you the day or...

No.

It only, you know, keep me well for a couple of hours.

I'm gonna climb through the window

and do it in there, so that way,

the wind doesn't blow away my dope

'cause then I'll be extremely pissed.

Put my dope in my spoon.

Add my water.

**

Do you ever get worried that you're gonna die?

Absolutely. I worry that I'm gonna to die every day.

I say my little prayer and, you know, ask God to,

you know, cover me and stuff.

**

Is this what you do every day?

Yes, this is what I do every day, all day, all night.

What kind of life is that?

It's a crappy life.

It's a terrible life, takes your soul.

**

So, Zanobi, can you now tell me about Megan Lancaster?

Well, I grew up with her.

She was a really nice girl.

We was good kids, and she never did anything,

but growing up, like, she got hooked on drugs.

I guess some things, you know, happened with her.

What do you think happened to her?

Well, no one really knows how she died,

but everyone knows that the police

had something to do with Megan Lancaster's death.

**

We are going to see Kadie Lancaster,

Megan Lancaster's sister-in-law.

**

Kadie. -Hi.

-Nice to meet you. -Nice to meet you, too.

Angela Clemente.

You were Megan's best friend. -Yes.

And you've known her for how long?

Lancaster: About 13 years.

Megan and I were inseparable, two peas in a pod.

There was a lot to love about Megan.

She was caring, outgoing.

She'd give you her last dollar

if she thought she could help somebody.

Megan had Reese three months into her senior year.

Megan was very, very excited to be a mom.

Her dream was to raise her baby

and, you know, be a good mother.

She loved him with all of her heart.

Why do you think she began taking drugs?

Did she ever tell you why?

Yeah, cover up the pain.

In what sense?

From what?

Sexual abuse.

From what age?

I don't know.

I can't get anybody else to talk about it,

but it's awful.

**

Megan was shooting up?

-Yes. -Okay.

And what was her drug of choice? -Oxycontin.

-Always? Okay. -Yeah.

So, does she have any convictions?

She has a trespassing conviction

and a drug-abuse conviction.

And what exactly did that mean, trespassing?

A.K.A. soliciting.

Okay. So prostitution?

-Yeah. -Okay.

Berlinger: Like the other victims,

Megan's addiction eventually leads her to prostitution.

Man: Megan was 25 when her family last heard from her.

Her car was found in the parking lot of a Portsmouth Rally's.

Megan's 9-year-old son is just one of the people

wondering what happened to her.

**

So, do you feel she's deceased?

Do you think that she's alive?

That's a very hard question to answer.

Okay?

I just know this.

I'll bring her home whatever way that it is.

**

Berlinger: Tell me what you think happened to Megan.

My theory on the case is that she was taken

by some really [bleep] up individuals.

I have studied human trafficking.

Megan is the type of girl that sells -- petite, blonde.

If they're not going for the 11- to 15-year-olds,

then it's the 18- to 30-year-olds,

so I know, for all of these women,

the clock is ticking,

and it's ticking fast.

When they hit 30...

When they hit 30, they're done.

They're done.

**

Here's her apartment building right here next door.

The first two days of her disappearance,

the police went in Megan's apartment.

They go in the bathroom.

They pull two hairs out of her hairbrush,

and they leave and said, "Crime scene cleared."

So I go in and go to work.

I found needles, drugs...

-Oh. -...dirty syringes,

clothes with blood on it.

They didn't even take that...

-Wow. -...into evidence.

Okay.

Wow. Okay.

Megan, she was a lost kid.

We know she was having some rough time,

going through a hard time in her life.

She just, all of a sudden, disappeared.

She hasn't been seen or heard from since.

Berlinger: Is her case still being actively investigated?

Yes. Yes.

You know, it's just a slow process.

Could she have been abducted for human trafficking?

I don't think that was the case with her,

human trafficking.

You know, my opinion of her the time that I encountered her

was she wasn't at that point in her life

where that was gonna happen to her.

It was that lifestyle that got her involved in

wherever she ended up, wherever she is now.

-Kadie Lancaster... -Mm-hmm.

...Megan's sister-in-law,

is that someone you've ever talked to?

We've had a couple of interactions, and, you know,

I try to understand where she's coming from,

but sometimes she takes the rumors she hears

and runs too far with them.

And, you know, she does damage to herself.

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I started thinking, like, "What can I do to make sure

that we preserve something

that could be beneficial later on?"

I was thinking if we needed scent dogs, you know,

any kind of thing like that,

they would need something with scent,

so I went for her bra,

and it's been in my freezer for 3 1/2 years.

I didn't touch it.

I used a plastic bag, put it in.

I got this out of her dirty clothes at her apartment,

and I've opened the bag, like, once,

and it still smells just like her.

It's very sad to have to look at things in your freezer

that could possibly belong to your dead best friend.

Kadie, have the police told you anything

about their investigation?

Oh.

The police haven't told us any freaking thing ever.

I mean, they've never told us anything, just,

"We're working on it, and we know nothing new."

They say everybody has a purpose in life,

and everything happens for a reason.

When Megan went missing,

what made me reflect back on my childhood

and all the tragedy in my life.

By the age of 12,

I had lost four of the most important people in my life.

I know now why God put me through what I went through,

you know, and it was so that I can,

and I will be able to give Reese

either his mommy back

or be able to give him an answer.

**

This is Megan's car that was found

at Rally's Hamburger in Portsmouth, Ohio.

The car was parked in a hurry

because one tire was up on the curb behind a bush

and not even straight,

and Megan would have never parked her car like that.

I am sure that tells a story.

This car had been sitting at Rally's for two days,

and my mother-in-law and father-in-law

just had it towed here,

where it's sat for six long months.

**

They just showed up one day

and said that they were here to pick up her car

and that they were taking it for evidence finally.

Over here, her wallet was found right here,

and it was left open.

Also, if you notice how far this seat is back,

this has never been touched.

Megan was 5'5" to 5'6".

This is too long for her to reach the pedal.

I don't believe that she drove the car to the hamburger place,

to Rally's in Portsmouth that night.

Truthfully, I believe a man drove it.

**

Berlinger: Kadie believes that

the delays in processing evidence

may have hindered efforts to find Megan.

Lancaster: This scares me.

I wonder, if murdered, did she suffer?

If kidnapping, is she still suffering?

I feel that it's, like, a race against the clock to find her.

Berlinger: We discover Megan did leave

one important piece of evidence behind.

On the love seat in very plain sight,

I found all of her papers,

papers that told a lot.

**

Berlinger: For the past 4 years,

Kadie Lancaster feels she has been working alone,

hunting for answers about what happened to her sister-in-law.

Kadie shows us a collection of papers

she found in Megan's apartment.

What it says is, "Contact if anything shall happen to me."

You find these papers.

How many about?

A lot, like, probably 100 or so.

I've organized them since.

When I got all of this,

it was all overwhelming at first.

Like, she was literally documenting her life

for those last couple months,

and I don't know why.

Do you think that she was worried

about her safety at some point?

Yes.

So, you found phone numbers with codes in it and...

They were color-coded.

Okay. This one is in a brown-ish color.

This one is in a bluish color.

This one is in a pink color.

And you start looking at the phone numbers.

-Yes. -You do a reverse search.

-Yeah, a number search. -Phone search? Okay.

And a lot of them, I could just find them,

and they would come up.

Up here in the red,

we have kind of smaller drug dealers.

Here are your bigger drug dealers.

The customers are over here.

This says, "Numbers from men who give money for dances."

In meticulous detail, these pages list

the alleged drug dealers Megan bought from

and the johns she tricked with.

And then there's some here that have just letters,

EE or E. -Yeah.

-What does that mean? -That is Captain Lynn Brewer.

Lynn Brewer, the same captain

who is investigating Megan's disappearance.

That telephone number is Captain Lynn Brewer?

Yeah. That's his house phone.

Okay. You're finding him in her book.

Yes, ma'am.

What did you do when you figured out who it was?

Well, I called him.

You just cold-called him?

Yeah.

I said, "What in the hell does Megan

have your home phone number for?"

"She don't have my home phone number!"

And I said, "Well, yes, she does. I'm looking at it."

I said, "And I have your cellphone number, too."

So you call him. He's denying it.

Yes.

I received this letter from the city solicitor

on September 17, 2013,

"Dear Ms. Lancaster,

this correspondence is to request you refrain

from contacting the Portsmouth Police Department."

**

Berlinger: All right. So some of the names

in her book are just code names...

-Yes. -...which is kind of odd.

We have, according to Katie, this E with this phone number

is the captain

in the Portsmouth Police Department,

so let's just make sure that that's accurate

because that could be troubling,

so let's do the number here.

**

There he is.

That's his home number.

Look. There's...

-Yep. -...his house.

What does that tell you?

The captain of the Portsmouth Police Department

is in this book

where these are her list of clients

and her list of drug dealers.

Not everybody has a black book with so much detail.

This could be a situation where she may be an informant.

Ah.

**

As an informant, you're gonna want

to keep real detailed documents,

and she's using this code so that no one knows --

If they find this book... -Right.

...no one knows who this person is.

**

Berlinger: I have heard -- You know, people have said,

"Oh, Megan, she was a snitch."

Is it possible that she was an informant?

Tough one to answer but I can tell you that it's not likely.

Okay.

I mean, it's not likely that that had anything to do

with what happened to her.

**

Berlinger: We meet with the town judge to find out

if Megan was an informant

and if that could've been a factor in her disappearance.

All rise.

Marshall: Please be seated.

Good morning. -Good morning.

All right.

Hear you got a new sponsor. -Yeah.

And how often are you meeting with him?

I seen him twice last week.

I've been calling him every day.

-Talk to him every day? -Yeah.

**

Marshall: They had posters all over the place, "Where's Megan?"

And then I realized that girl had been in my courtroom before.

She was a cute girl.

It's really sad.

Berlinger: From what we have heard

about the Megan Lancaster case,

there was some suspicion that she might've been an informant.

Have you heard that theory at all?

If she was, I wouldn't know anything about it.

I don't know about the informants

until they get to trial.

I don't want to know their names.

I want to know nothing about them.

If a drug dealer finds out somebody is an informant,

the informant is in very big trouble

right to the point of getting killed.

[ Police radio chatter ]

Zanobi: I know that Megan Lancaster,

she was an informant

with a couple Portsmouth Police Department officers.

Why would Megan agree to be an informant?

If we ever get into any trouble, you know, free out-of-jail card.

I mean, there's a lot of good reasons why somebody would,

but at the same time, I mean, I would never do that

because, like, somebody could kill you.

**

Berlinger: Zanobi's claim that Megan Lancaster was an informant

for the Portsmouth Police

could help explain Megan's disappearance.

**

...who knows what happens after that?

It's very dangerous out here.

Berlinger: We need to find out more about

how these local police use their informants

and the dangers they face...

**

...so we meet up with Portsmouth defense attorney Michael Mearan.

His legal work involves many local drug addicts,

dealers, and law enforcement,

making him a potentially valuable source of information.

Mearan: Welcome to Mearan Law Office.

This is just accumulation

of 44 years of practice.

[ Cellphone rings ]

Brady, I can't talk. I'm on TV.

Get here.

Berlinger: What kind of law do you do?

Explain what kind of law you do.

People law. This is a people practice.

We don't represent businesses.

We represent people, mostly criminal

or someone that needs to try to get their children back.

We do a lot of that.

I found the best advertising I have is, over at the jail,

I'm told, in pencil,

"Mike Mearan is a good lawyer."

And it's amazing the number of calls I get from jail.

-Whoo! -Hollywood!

What's going on? Who do you need? What is this?

They just came in here and took over the whole damn place!

Berlinger: Mike Mearan's office is a hive of activity

buzzing with current clients,

former clients, and a variety of part-time employees.

Brady was a prison guard at Lucasville

and couldn't take the pressure.

Now he's security at MLO.

Tell us your story, young lady.

I turned 18 in prison.

I've been four times total due to my addiction.

Berlinger: What was your addiction?

Crack cocaine and heroin.

How much are drugs?

Oh, I was spending probably $500 a day.

Where are you getting the money to do that?

Prostituting.

Pretty much would sell my soul to the devil for it.

Woman: Absolutely.

So I'm gaining self-respect back today.

I'm retired.

I'm a single mom, as well, with a 9-year-old daughter.

Her daughter looks just like her and just a gorgeous --

She walks Mike's dogs. She works here, too.

[ Laughter ]

-I got a lot of dog walkers. -Everybody's got a job here.

What did you guys think

when all these women started disappearing?

I was out there then.

One of my friends still has not been found.

Megan Lancaster, she's been missing for,

what, 3, 4 years now,

and her family has still not had closure.

So you knew Megan Lancaster?

Elrod: Yes.

I grew up with Megan.

She got addicted to drugs,

and we were both supplying our habit,

and I hate that she's missing, and I hope they do find her.

A lot sick, twisted things has happened to me in these streets.

Many a times, I've been beat, raped, left for dead.

I was missing for a week and a half

and held hostage in Kentucky. I don't know.

I was raped and sodomized and left --

They were gonna kill me, and then, by the grace of God,

I was able to get loose and run.

There's a lot of sick men out here

with a lot of sick fetishes.

I feel like there's a lot that the police

leave out on Megan's case.

Like, when they found her car at Rally's,

her door was wide open

like she was yanked out of her car.

They're just letting this case go cold,

and I feel like they're not doing nothing.

Mearan: I knew Megan.

Megan was a very beautiful young lady.

I don't recall ever having a conversation with her.

I knew who she was.

I could've seen her in court.

She was involved in a case in which I represented a client

that was charged with selling drugs.

But other than that, I never represented her.

**

Berlinger: Back in New York,

we go through Megan's black book,

looking for additional clues

that might help us understand what happened to her.

Hey, you guys should look at this.

I'm going through Megan's black book or notebook.

Look at that name right there.

Mike Mearan.

Mike Mearan may have a stronger connection to Megan Lancaster

than we were initially led to believe.

It's troubling that he said he didn't really know her,

you know, so in our previous interview

that, you know, he knew who she was

but didn't really have a lot of knowledge.

So, you know, why is he in her black book under,

you know, numbers for men who give money?

Well, it could be just that he might have

some information to offer.

It's, you know, we just need to clarify a lot of these things.

We decide to give him a call, hoping he can explain

why his name and number appear in Megan's black book.

[ Line ringing ]

-Hey, Jim. -Mike, how are you?

Mearan: Oh, okay.

You know, we've been speaking to a whole bunch of people,

and we have lots of different stories

from all sorts of people,

so I have to call everybody that we've interviewed

and just kind of follow up

and, you know, fact-check, basically.

So go ahead.

We found this document that's Megan's kind of,

you know, black book.

Did you ever hear of this book, this black book she had?

Yeah.

I've never seen it or what it was. But...

Your name is in here, so does that mean anything?

My name and how many other people?

Well, there's quite a few, but these are, like,

with, you know, like, "80 bucks" next to your name.

You know, I don't know what -- I mean,

I have loaned money out to people.

It could've been something where she borrowed money.

I don't know. I have no idea.

Berlinger: While Mike Mearan could not shed any light

on Megan's book of names,

we are getting the feeling

that he does know something more about Megan Lancaster.

I knew Megan. I knew Megan, Megan Lancaster.

He suggests that Megan was involved in a drug case

that he handled.

Portsmouth is, or was, the pill mill capital,

the center of this opiate addiction

that spawned all of this,

and he's the leading defense attorney

representing drug dealers,

so he's also at the center of that.

Bongardt: And I think the biggest thing is

we've had allegations or people talk about

how the victims might have been informants.

Here's an individual we can talk to that could confirm that,

yes, one of these girls that is missing...

-Right. -...is an informant.

That does seem to be an emerging thread.

And could be a motive for them being killed as well.

He is a go-between between a lot of these drug dealers

and the police. -And the drug court.

And the drug court, right.

And so I'd like to drill down on it and talk to him.

He may have information that could be helpful to us.

Berlinger: Could this small-town defense attorney

be the key to understanding what might've happened

to Megan Lancaster?

[ Police radio chatter ]

Berlinger: No one from the police department

or the courts will corroborate the possibility

that a local missing woman was an informant,

but one lawyer agrees to talk.

Mike, I would like to thank you very much for meeting with us.

I've dealt a lot with, for many, many years now,

with regard to informants.

We call them snitches in the trade.

Uh-huh. Right.

They do buys and things of the sort.

Right. Right. So I'm kind of interested in hearing

about the Angie Compton case

and anything to do with Megan Lancaster.

Okay.

**

In Angie's particular case,

Megan Lancaster was the person

that if you say set someone up,

I don't think there was an entrapment

because Angie was selling drugs anyway,

but it was a way of, more or less,

catching her or doing whatever it was.

Right after the sale, Angie was arrested,

so it didn't take Sherlock Holmes

to figure out how she got arrested

and that Megan was involved in it.

Did Megan get any time for that?

No, Megan, I don't think,

was charged with anything, and I don't know.

Sometimes, back then, they even paid informants to do that.

Bongardt: I don't want to put words in your mouth,

but based on your knowledge

that it's possible that a motive

for her disappearance could've been

that she was a snitch?

**

That's true. It's possible.

Bongardt: So Michael Mearan, that was something.

It's really, really key that as best as we could've gotten

in that meeting with Mearan, we have information

that Megan Lancaster was an informant.

-Right. -That was so important.

There was no doubt in Mearan's mind

that Megan Lancaster was the person

that set up Angie Compton.

There was no doubt.

Berlinger: A potential motive is emerging.

Could these missing and murdered women

have snitched on someone in the drug underworld

and were silenced in retaliation?

**

A piece of information that Kadie had shared with us

now becomes much more significant.

There's been a person of interest.

His name is Ernest Moore.

Can you tell me, do you know anything about him,

or did he have any connection at all to Megan?

Lancaster: I knew that he was in Portsmouth

at the time that Megan went missing.

He was in Portsmouth the time that Megan went missing?

And how did you establish that?

I saw him.

Ernest "Dollar Bill" Moore

is a name that just keeps coming up again and again.

He was part of a large drug enterprise

that stretched from Columbus to Chillicothe

and further south.

Lancaster: Three days after Megan went missing

on April the 6th, 2013,

my husband and I got a call from their cousin,

and he just said,

"I need you to get out to this hotel.

Megan's in one of these rooms,"

and that she was tied to a bed.

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It was like, "Oh, my gosh. We've got to get there."

And so when we arrived at this hotel,

my husband went and knocked

on what could potentially have been death's door.

He risked his life not knowing if there were machine guns

or whatever on the other side.

116 is the door that we knocked on,

and two men answered the door,

and my husband said,

"I heard my sister was here.

Do you guys have her?"

Well, they wouldn't let him see in the room

except just to the bed.

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Then, when we got home, another phone call comes in.

It was an anonymous call.

We don't know who it was.

Said that Megan was tied to a bed but in room 210

and that she heard her brother outside

and that she was screaming for me,

and...

she was no longer there.

They said that she had been taken out in a bag,

but that she's still alive.

So we watched this place for days,

and we started noticing things like the two guys.

One of them had a big Suburban,

and he would always be outside shining the wheels,

and Dollar Bill -- Dollar Bill was his name.

Berlinger: Could Dollar Bill have abducted

and killed Megan Lancaster

and perhaps others as well?

And maybe law enforcement played an unwitting supporting role.

Could this explain why they have appeared reluctant

to solve these cases in the first place?

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Bongardt: It's very interesting because of Dollar Bill, right?

Dollar Bill's all over these other towns

where we have missing women.

He's connected in some way.

So we have Megan Lancaster,

last seen in Portsmouth, Ohio, April 3rd.

Three days after that, some period of time,

there's this surveillance. Right?

Over a year later is Charlotte Trego.

We have Jason McCrary's information

that Dollar Bill was the one that did that.

July 7th, Moore is charged with assaulting a woman

on her porch in Chillicothe,

but chargers were dropped when the police failed

to locate the woman to testify against Moore.

And then, right after that, you have the torture

of Arthur Hamlin on July 22nd.

Genitals on fire, you know,

raped with a broomstick, the whole bit.

So we are coming up with these connections

and the possibility of

Dollar Bill having some involvement.

We really should be looking at Dollar Bill.

Berlinger: As we seem to get closer to finding answers,

our leads keep coming back to Ernest "Dollar Bill" Moore.

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